Fellowship in Spinal Surgery

The successful candidate will work with the 8 consultants in the Spinal Unit at Ipswich Hospital.

The post would be ideally suited to an orthopaedic or Neurosurgical trainee towards the end of their training with a specialist interest in spinal surgery techniques and complex spinal reconstruction. Any on call work carries additional remuneration.

This is post is for period of 12 months, extendable to 18 to 24 depending on needs, performance and availability.

Main duties of the job

The post offers experience in all aspects of spinal surgery except paediatric deformity & intradural work.

The Spine Fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in the spinal on call service, regular day case procedures, out-patient clinics, in-patient operating lists and regular research sessions.

The Spine Fellow will be responsible for regular review of the ward patients and coordinating the admission of spinal emergencies from surrounding hospitals.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients' own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.

We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites - totalling £100million over the next five years.

We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.

We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.

At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There's a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children's Unit.

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